Improvement in portable fences



.l. B. TILL-INGHAST.

Portable Fence;

No. 38,131. Patnted April 7, 1863. J

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

"JOSEPH B. TILLINGHAST, OF RAGINE, OHIO.

lMPPtOVEMENT IN PORTABLE FENCES Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 38,131, dated April '7, 1863.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOSEPH B. TILLING- HAST, of Racine, county of Meigs, and State of Ohio, have invented new and useful Improvements in Portable Board Fences; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, making a part of this specification.

The nature of my invention consists infast- (ning three rails J on the one side of four posts E, F, G, and H and two other rails, J, intermediately between the other rails, but fastened on the same side to three of the posts, E, F, and G, with extended ends, so as to be inserted in the spaces K K of the opposite end of the next panel, and interlocking with the posts E, G, and H of the next panel, to form a firm angular or worm fence.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to de- 1 'thus finished, the ends of the second and fourth extension rails J are then inscrtedin the spaces K of the next panel, and the pan scribe its construction, as follows:

I use for convenience a platform of the height, width, and length of the panel to be made, upon which strips or guides D are per- 11 a iently fastened, till between which posts E, F, G, and H are inserted, and rails J are nailed and fastened to the posts for the purpose of forming and making a lightand port able board fence, that each panel will look into the other and be made to suit the level or rising and falling ground.

A represents the platform upon which strips or guides D are permanently fastened with screws or nails, the guides being strips of board one inch in thickness and three or four inches apart, so that the posts E, F, G, and H may be laid or inverted between them. The posts are from three to four inches in thickness.

E represents the end post, which acts as a catch or look against the post H of the next panel.

G represents a post which is intended to E, F, G, and H. The second rail is fastened by nails or screws to the three posts E, F, and G, the end of rail projecting two or more feet beyond the post E. The third rail J is fastened like the first. The fourth rail is fastened and projects like the second, and the fifth or lower rail J is fastened to correspond with the first or top rail. Two panels being els are interlocked by the ends of rails J pressing against the post G and the post E resting against the post H, forming an angu lar or worm fence, having an equal pressure on all sides andnot liable to get out of plate or be so easily affected or injured by storms, and having a decided advantage in being quickly and regularly constructed and put up.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The panels having the posts all one side, provided with the extension-rails L, fitting into the spaces K, with the post E, interlockingwith the post H, all constructed in the manner and for the purpose set forth.

JOSEPH B. TILLINGHAS'T.

Witnesses:

J. R. PHILSON, HENRY REYNOLDS. 

